"Hey! What's the big idea here?!" A thug roughly grabbed a police officer by the shoulder, "Like we said, this is a raid!" The latter reminded. "Stand down!" A hero ordered while ripping his hair off and forming it into a sword, "Clear the way! If you needlessly fight back, you'll regret it!" Another threatened. "The gang's out in full force, just buying time..! Seems kinda self destructive." Some other local heroes held down the thugs in the back meanwhile Fat Gum busted down the front doors of the compound. "Excuse us! We're in a hurry here, sorry for not taking off our shoes!"
They looked around for anything weird or out of place, "Do you think this feels kinda suspicious?" The big yellow suited man voiced his suspicions. "Something about this doesn't feel right. But we have no choice, just gotta push on!" Rock Lock reminded. "Maybe we had a leak? But it seemed like everyone was pretty trust worthy..." Amajiki offered an iffy reason. "A leak? Nah, if so, they'd be doing a better job of dealing with us. Besides, it's common knowledge that the mob tends to act with a real sense of unity." The chief explained. "The underlings exchanged sake cups and pledged loyalty to the bosses."
"Even after their fall, gangs like these have always put loyalty above everything else. They're probably using these low ranking members as distractions to cut and run." Kirishima gaped at (Y/n)s brief rundown of the yakuza, "Loyalty?! That's a bunch of crap! Leaving the rough stuff to your followers while making a getaway isn't manly at all!" He yelled, "No doubt!" Fat Gum agreed, "Here." They arrived and stopped at a section in the wall that had a vase in on top with a cherry blossom tree. "There should be a mechanism that opens up the way down," Mirai shifted around with the boards.
"We just have to press the planks in the right order," he pressed down in a cryptic formation. There were multiple whirring sounds coming from the secret passageway, sure enough, it was opening. "This is like some sort of ninja hide out!" Bubble Girl awed, "If you hadn't seen it, there's no way we'd know where to go. Now we just need to watch out for unfamiliar quirks." Centipeders eyes widened in surprise once he saw something coming out of the opening secret door, "Bubble Girl!" He called out for his fellow sidekick. "Like hell you're getting past us!" Three thugs appeared.
One of them had a trumpet as a tongue, the other had odd curved up eyebrows, and the last one had a knife in hand. "You take one of them!" His centipede like arms unwrapped from his neck—he has real hands at the end of them—and wrapped around two of the thugs. Aizawa used his quirk on the one that wasn't captured yet, bubbles appeared out of her hands. One popped in the one that was holding the knife's, face. "Sorry guy!" The sidekick grabbed him by the back of neck and pinned his arm onto his back. "We'll make sure these three don't follow, go on, we won't be far behind."
"My eyes!" The thug cried out in pain with comical tear streams running down his cheeks, he was pinned to the ground at a quick pace. "So quick!" Kirishima commented, "Let's go!" They all started moving again, "Not much farther now!" They ran down steps and ran through a short hallway, though that came to an end once they was a dead end in their sights. "Looks like a dead end!" They slowed down, "There's no way through?!" The chief grit his teeth. "What the deal, Nighteye?!" An irk mark appeared on Rock Lock's forehead. "I'll take a look!" Mirio took off his head gear and approached the dead end.
'It looks rough around the edges, it's probably a man made wall.' (Y/n) crossed her arms, "Wait Lemillion! You're gonna be butt naked if you..." Amajiki interrupted by tapping the energetic red head on the shoulder, "The special fibers in Mirio's costume are made from his own hair. So the costume reacts and permeates stuff just as well as he can. He's fine." The blonde boy retracted from the wall, "This wall's the only thing in our way! It's a thick one though." (Y/n) walked forward without anyone noticing, "Chisaki probably did this with his whole destroy-and-re-create thing."
"How sneaky," Fat Gum added to Rock Locks speculation. "We've come too for to let this stop us!" Midoriya clenched his fists, "Right!" They were about to attack the wall with their quirks and pure determination, but they noticed the blue haired girls figure right in front of the wall. "Huh?" They paused, "Did he really think something as puny as a wall could stop me?" The lights flickered above them, "Pathetic." She flicked the wall with her middle finger, it completely shattered apart and caved into itself. "This kid gets the job done, huh?" Rock Locks arms drooped to his side. "She smashed right through..."
"Let's keep moving, no time to waste." She was about to take a step forward, but, "The corridor...it's..!" Bubble Girl noticed the wall closing up, "Wait, lookit that!" She pointed at the rolling ground. The ex-vigilante furrowed her eyebrows, "The hallway! It's twisting and morphing!" Someone stated the obvious. "It ain't Chisaki! This isn't his shtick! I'd say it's gotta be their HQ director, Irinaka!" The chief pointed out, "But the scale of what he's doing here if off the charts! He's supposedly limited to controlling something the size of a fridge!" (Y/n) bit on her nail, "He definitely used trigger then."
"His quirk let's him possess objects and control them from the inside, Mimicry. He must've taken control of the concrete down here and turned it into a living labyrinth." She backed up as everyone shuffled closer to each other. "I was all set to deal with some obstacles, but the whole basement? It's gotta be taking a toll on the guys stamina. Can you cancel it out, Eraser?!" The latter glanced around in hopes of spotting the perp, "Not unless I catch sight of his real body," he replied to Fat Gum. (Y/n) planted her shoes firmly on the ground, "It wouldn't be a wise move to blow the whole place to bits, right Mirai?"
"Don't you even think about doing that." She scoffed under her breath. "The passage way keeps shifting around, we'll never reach the targets at this rate. Meanwhile the bad guys will have all the time in the world to escape. What's our next move here? We gotta be quick...no...it's hopeless. How can we even think about saving them when we're totally doomed?" The indigo haired boys teeth grinded together, "Tamaki!!" He snapped out of his trance, "This isn't like you! You're Suneater, after all! Plus, we can make it through this!" Mirio rushed past the boy.
"All these twisting halls don't matter as long as we know the way to the target. I can make it!" Three people turned to him, knowing exactly was he was gonna do. "Lemillion!/Senpai!" Mirai and Midoriya called out but he didn't stop running forward. "Its a race against the clock, they know it too. It's all just to buy them time! See you guys on the other side!" He phased through the twisting cement. "No wait!" (Y/n) placed her palm on her forehead, 'This idiot!! There's no telling who'll he end up fighting!' "Mirio..!" 'Sheesh, what's wrong with me?! Look at Mirio, giving it his all like that.'
'It's clear what I've gotta do,' Tamaki ripped his gaze away from where the blonde left. 'He walked right through me, not much I can do against that. But even if the punk makes it all the way through—he can't put up much of a fight on his own.' A large hole opened up below the heroes and only some police officers, 'Oh shit!' They were all falling, "Up there!" The blue haired girl looked up—the large hole closed above them. She easily landed on her feet, far smoother than the rest of them. That was quickly taken away when Amajiki landed on her and made her face plant on the ground.
"Ouch..." His eyes widened, "Ah, sorry Azul!" He shot up and off of her back, "It's fine." 'Ain't even gonna help me up...? Whatever.' She stood up by herself and looked around, "Some sort of room?" Rock lock helped the chief up, "We're just getting farther and farther from the targets now! These guys're punking us real good!" He complained. "Lookee here, state authorized goons, dropping from the sky." Everyone turned to the whiny voice, "Life is just full of surprises huh?" 'Toya Setsuno, Yu Hojo and Soramitsu Tabe,' (Y/n) clicked her nails together, "I wrap these guys up, quick."
"So they wanna fight?! How about we show 'em what is pros here can do." Both her and Fat Gum walked forward but were stopped by Amajiki's arm sticking out. "You pros and Azul's power...are essential to this mission! As for these guys trying to slow us down..." He trailed off, "It's not like that at all man, the reason I work so hard...is because I've got you by my side Tamaki." He recalled Mirios words, "...I can deal with them myself!"
Third grade spring, Tamaki Amajiki had transferred to a new school on the very first day of classes.
"I'm Ama...I wanna be...a...he..." He really flubbed his introduction. The seating chart had already been made, and everyone was together with their close classmates. Him being the new kid who started off on the wrong foot—didn't have the guts to assert himself with any of them. And it's not like he was too successful at making new friends before either, he sat in his assigned seat with his head down. He just thought of himself as a plain and boring guy.
"Amajiki, when you said "he" a minute ago..." He perked up at the cheery voice, that's when he showed up... "You meant "hero" right?! So who're you a fan of?!" ...and reached out to him. It was a little blonde boy with round blue eyes, he seemed to not have scleras. How odd.
"The lead unit is down!"
"What now?!"
"We just gotta keep moving!" Mimic watched the police continue on their way, without the heroes. 'There are more of them than we thought, better start by mopping up this bunch.' The scene went back to the lead unit, "As for those guys trying to slow us down, I can deal with them myself!" The indigo haired boy declared bravely. "What the heck man?! Let's do this together!" Kirishima urged the boy trying whom was trying to go solo. "Yeahhh! Work together, why don'tcha? More pigs to the slaughter...and (Y/n) (L/n). What a surprise, I didn't think you abided but low heroes."
The girl rose an eyebrow at the yellow haired man, "I personally think you were better as a vigilante, y'know." Her second eyebrow rose, "Oh wow, really? And I personally think..." She placed her hand on her cheek with an innocent look, "...That I should really kick your ass, y'know? You officers oughta' hide yer' guns, it's Setsuno." She blankly pointed at the man holding the katana, "I guess the secret's out! Whatever! It'll make it all the easier to go wild on y'all, especially you, you brat!" An irk mark appeared on (Y/n)s forehead as he lunged at her, "Brat? You mother fuck-"
Aizawa cut her off by placing a hand on her shoulder and activating his quirk, "That won't work! Now drop the blade, you're lucky I intervened! Don't cause so much damage (Y/n), and try not to provoke these people." The latters looked at their hands, "My quirk..?" Setsuno flexed his hand, "You know I wasn't gonna hurt him, right?" She crossed her arms, "I wasn't completely sure about that," she shrugged his hand off of her. Hojo took out a gun, "Blades 'n' bullets'll just sink into me, come quietly if you don't wanna suffer!" Fat Gum threatened.
"We can use our weapons as long as Eraser's doing his thing, surrender now!" The police aimed their guns, "Threats like that only work on people who value life!" Setsuno froze in his tracks and (Y/n) snapped her head towards him, they had said the same thing at the same time. But one moment of hesitance from them would be taken advantage of immediately. Amajiki hurtled through the three, though they dodged, but then while he zipped past them—his tentacles wrapped around their bodies and captured them. "Larceny, Setsuno. Crystallize, Hojo, and Food, Tabe," he listed their quirks.
"I'll take you all on!" He took their weapons and slammed them against the wall with his quirk. "I get to indulge in plenty of takoyaki at the Fat Agency, so my octopus proficiency is maxed out. And I'm pretty cautious about these things getting shot." His tentacles started to form into a crab claw, "Fighting these three doesn't solve anything, if our pros get caught up handling this situation...then we're playing right into their hands." His crab slaw shattered the trios weapons, Setsuno laughed. "But..." Kirishima's agape mouth went down in worry, "There's not a moment to spare!"
"Eraser needs to lead the way, and you'll need all the pros' quirks. Especially (Y/n)s. She's got the power to smash through those morphing walls, and the police have their guns! Fat Gum! I can keep these three occupied by myself!" (Y/n)s eyes shined at his determined form, Amajiki...he was truly amazing. "Let's go through that door!" The big yellow suited hero ordered, "Fat!" Kirishima retaliated. "Hey, hey, now. Not so fast, I want to fight you, Azul!" The yellow haired man's quirk was erased again, "Again?!" He growled in frustration, "Apologies, Setsuno, maybe another time."
He was a good candidate, for the new project. Or rather, new idea, an old idea but it was never really gone over thoroughly by (Y/n). She's got the building, power and ranking for it, maybe not the time or the mentality yet but soon. "I'll..." She flashed past them and knocked out Tabe with a strike to the neck. "...keep your name in mind, for the future. Now let's go." She stopped at the door frame, "I'll knock them out while I've still got eyes on them!" He slammed them against the wall once more. "Help out Mirio, I just know...he's gonna take it too far and need saving."
"Go now!" They started running out the door and (Y/n) stopped and turned back, "Hey, Amajiki-senpai...?" He glanced at her reassuringly, "It's alright (L/n)-san, go ahead." Her eyes lit up, "You're really cool, and...don't get hurt too much." She sped out to catch up with everyone else. "Fat!! What's the deal, leaving him all alone back there?!" The spiky red haired boy questioned—doubting his senpai. "He's your guy, so it's your call, but it seems like a bad move to me," Rock Lock voiced his opinion. "He's more capable than anyone else here to take those three down."
"He's just lacking spirit, the pressure he puts on himself to be perfect crushes him. But despite that, he still rose up to become one of U.A's Big Three. So if he says he'll deal with them, I just hafta believe in him." Back to Amajiki, 'The trio's here to keep us from reaching the targets, and I'm not seeing any trace of Irinaka or his mimicry ability down here. I guess he's prioritizing the cops above, but it doesn't seem like he can monitor the entire maze and move it around in subtle ways. Either way, my role is to take these three out of the equation!'
"Couldn't use my quirk again, this is seriously too freaky! And I really really wanted to fight (L/n)..." The yellow haired man turned red, 'That one talks big game, I should knock these three out before Eraser's Erasure wears off. And is he obsessed with (L/n)-san or something?' The third year reeled his arm back and his tentacles curled like fingers, "Sorry, but you're all about to take a little nap." He lunged at them but Setsuno did the same, his eyes widened when a slice was heard throughout the room. "Surprised? Did ya' flinch? We get that you're in a hurry, but you better take us more seriously, y'hear?"
"Especially when you're up against the likes of us." There was a slash in his tentacle, "Guess ya didn't know what I was packing under this here mask," the yellow haired man had a knife dripping with blood sticking out of his black plague mask. "That sneaky jerk's quirk bought you some time, but that's all it did." Hojo has crystals emerge out from his body, weakening the third years grip, he laughed at him. His hand turned into a shell and he prepared himself to use it against the mineral user—but it popped out of his skin somehow. "Kinda handicapping yourself if ya' won't kill us!"
"What a charmed life you must live!" 'Larceny instantly steals a person's equipment, I guess my shell counts as equipment?' "We'd given up on life y'see!! When we tried to kill ourselves by leaping to our deaths—a hero caught us! Can ya' imagine our despair?! We didn't see the point in living anymore! There's no way you'd understand, there are only two people who would understand!" Hojo dashed closer to Tamaki with his arm reeled back and ready, "The young boss found a new use for old garbage, and Azul! She's the only hero that isn't blinded by fame and fortune!"
"Even trash like us have pride. When given a job, you can bet we'll come through!" The reinforced punch landed square on his stomach. "People make fine use of their quirks at any number of jobs, being a hero's not the only option. How will you be useful to society in the future? That's what we're here to explore in quirk training..." A small green sprout sprouted out of a young boys back hand, "What's wrong Amajiki? You should be capable of much more with your quirk. Are you nervous again?" The sprout melted back into his skin, he looked down with a small frown. "Fine, you tried, back in line."
"Gah!" A blonde boy accidentally slammed his face into a wooden board, the class let out stifled laughter which turned into giggling in their palms. "Stop messing around Togata! Your face didn't make it through!" The latter comically fumed, "It's super hard, I'm telling you! I wish you all could give it a try! It's gotta be at least five times tougher than you think!" He stomped his feet on the ground. "You're just kinda clumsy when it comes to controlling your quirk, Togata." The teacher informed and Mirio stamped his thumb to his chest. "Whatever! I'm sure I'll pull it off next time!"
"You're...incredible, Mirio. Even when you screw up...you stay cheery with eyes on the prize. It pumps everyone up too. I just can't, when I even think about failing...my mind goes blank and I freeze up. You're gonna be a great hero someday, bright and shining, like the sun." The two boys walked down the sidewalk together. "What the heck? You're giving me way too much credit. It's not like that at all, man. The reason I work so hard is because I've got you by my side, Tamaki. I'm not really all that strong," the blonde swatted him away. "It's just, when I see you out there, all nervous..."
"...but you refuse to back down anyway, I feel like I don't want wanna lose to you."
"Lose..? You're always building me up whole underestimating yourself. Saying silly stuff, like how I'm the the sun. But I know the truth, deep down, you've got real talent. The truth is, you're a fun guy with a bright side of your own. Let me borrow that word you used, youre gonna be even greater than any regular ol' sun. You'll outshine any sun out there!" "Give it up. Because I'm..." "Anyway, you get the picture. Be confident Tamaki, you're..."
"...Suneater!"
The hero held back the other with one hand and the use of his quirk. 'I can manifest the characteristics of the food I eat. I'll make use of everything...my quirk is capable of doing! Chunks of muscle and these octopus tentacles can absorb any blow, and I can defend against the damage from his crystals by layering tough shells.' Hojo sucked his teeth, "You use your quirk well, but...it'll only get you so far!" His quirk raged farther than before, 'Everything...for two and a half years now, I've been pushing my quirk's limits at U.A. I can change the parts' sizes.'
'Manifest multiple parts at once, choose which to use at any given moment. And now, I'm bringing everything to the table.' A hard burgundy colored shield appeared on his face. "Vast hybrid..." An abundance of colossal tentacles with large suckers and chunks of muscle shot out of his body and whipped around flexibly. "...Chimera Kraken!" They whammed into the two yakuza bullets that were still awake. "Whoa, whoa, whoa!!" Setsuno recalled the third years previous words, "I can deal with them myself," he had reassured. "So that's what he meant!"
"Tabe! Wake up!" He turned to the other who had been knocked out by (Y/n), "Time to eat!" He body twitched, he woke up and jumped. The next thing Tamaki knew—he was missing a piece of his tentacle, "!!!" It had been chomped off. "Octopus...yummy," Tabe enjoyed the greedy bite. "Yum," another bite, "Yum," and another, he continued to chomp down at the hero's quirk without hesitance and with his black hole of a mouth. "Ha ha ha!!! His teeth and jaws can tear through anything in a flash! And his stomach digests it all before you know it! There's no filling that guy up! You hurting yet?!"
"I gotta say...you two are a match made in heaven!" '(Y/n) knew what a bad matchup it'd be for me, so she took that guy out first. But...it's fine. I'll just give it my all. Plus, I'm moving better than this guy ever could!' His mask was snatched off of his face, "Three on one, huh? Ha ha ha!! Just what you wanted, Suneater! You thought you could pin us down by whipping those big ol' tentacles around?!" In a flash, a chunk of crystal hit the indigo haired boy square on the right side of his face. 'I thought I nailed the kid dead on, but he just barely managed to react in time!'
Where the crystal was supposed to cause more damage, Amajiki spawned a bit of the burgundy shell on his face to lessen it. 'A weak defense like that—can't block my crystals though.' "Yummy, yummy." Tabe let out sounds of glee at the pleasant food he was eating, 'He's eating me down to nothing!' Though, only pleasant for him, but that would change quickly. 'The common octopus has a neurotoxin in its saliva! It's in the tentacles now!! Chew on that! Once you do, you'll be paralyzed!' He jumped back, but once Tabes mouth slammed shut—his tentacles were stolen.
"I can't steal things when they're too big, but these left overs are a different story." The third year was slammed in the side of his body by a vast crystal, 'Their teamwork is perfect,' he let out a gasp of pain. "We might be trash, but trash can form solid bonds." His body slammed against the floor, "You'll all be arrested, wether you beat me or not, you've got no future." The yellow haired man glanced down at him while he stole the pouches off his chest gear with his quirk. "So what?! Some were tossed aside when they didn't mesh with society. Another was betrayed by a lover and beset with crushing debt. Not even allowed to die, he survived by sucking the water from the gutter."
"And another became the tool of some money grubber, and when that pig figured out my fake gems were worthless—we were deemed just as worthless and beaten to hell and back," Hojo briefed their backstories. "That's when he came to us..." It showed a Chisaki extending a hand out to each of them, "Come join the Hassaikai, you shouldn't be rotting away on the streets." "You think we give a crap what happens after that?! He gave us value. Purpose. So for his sake, we'll take out anything that gets in his way." Amajiki glanced down, 'He doesn't control them with fear, it's more like brainwashing!'
"So you're hoping to be sacrificed like some worthless pawns?!" The boy wouldn't understand, or rather, he couldn't. Because he's never been in a situation like they've been in, but they're dead wrong if they think they don't have a future. (Y/n)s project, a place where people who need a fresh start—mostly people with not so good backgrounds—and somewhere that she can be in contact to help people that aren't in need of physical saving. It would be for everyone, not just civilians that need help with debt or need a place to stay, but for criminals and villains who ended up in dark places for multiple reasons.
Wether it be their past, their connections, their quirks, the way they look, their back ground, or their family name—in which case she can relate to—etc. She would aid people that were like her and she would help them like no one helped her, it wasn't for a good reputation either. But more, she doesn't want to see people suffering and in a situation that she was in. But she won't give the people a normal life or a brighter future right away. They would have to prove that they need it and they want it, and are willing to change, then—she would help them in every way she could. Not everything in life comes easy.
"A hero could never understand! Prepare to die! You won't be so lucky this time!" Hojos arms crystallized while the boy recalled their words, "We might be trash, but trash can form solid bonds." "With your back against the wall, you ain't getting away from this one!" 'My attacks get gobbled up and my defense gets stripped away—in that case..' His foot manifested into a chickens foot and flicked a rock with one of the talons. It successfully hit Setsuno right in the eye, 'I've just gotta tear their teamwork apart! His Larceny only works on objects he can see.'
'That's why the police wouldn't draw their guns on him! But now that his eyes are off me..' Crystals emerged from his body and countered Hojo's attack, '...those're my...! The perfect counter!' Most of the mineral shattered on impact, "You...You ate my crystals!!" The boy grabbed the older with a crystallized chicken foot, "Thats right!! You really trust each other, and that was some killer team work!" Tabe dashed towards them, "Eat, eat, eat, eat!!" His mouth was opened wide, "I might not understand your grief, your rage. Everything that led you here, but I know all about solid bonds!"
"And my friends don't use each other!" Tamaki pushed forwards and slammed the three against each other and into the wall. "Because friends don't eat friends."
A Few Moments Later
"Though you've been poisoned, you won't die. But you won't be able to move any time soon." The trio was all tied up together, "As for these masks—I'm taking them for now. There's no telling what else you might've hidden under them." The indigo haired boy let out a breathe while his previously erratic heart—was slowing down. 'That took longer than expected..! Everyone's probably far ahead by now, I've gotta get going.' He staggered with every step, "You're really cool, and—don't get hurt too much." His body collapsed on the ground, 'Huh? Why's the floor so close to my face?'
'(Y/n)...she called me cool, I hope she doesn't think that I don't like her...in fact...I think...she's...really cool...too...'
-kiyo (4778 words)